the Body’s Count
Myth & the body: a colloquy with Joseph Campbell by Stanley Keleman.
In Myth & the body, a compilation of lectures given by Joseph Campbell and Stanley Keleman, a central thesis recurs, in which mythology is ever relating the external world to the body.
Using the Body as Myth, or the Myth as Body, what numberological summersaults can be turned over these numbers, common to us by acquaintance, if not in person:
[the following list is by no means exhaustive]
4
heart chambers
liver lobes
limbs
13
major joints
10
fingers
toes
20
digits
milk teeth
22
skull bones
24
vertebral column bones
ribs (+1 extra in some cases)
30
permanent teeth
32
full set with wisdom teeth
52
foot bones
54
hand bones
60
digital joints
206
bones
~650
muscles (alternative definitions)
